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  I want to share my book, "The Community of Faith, Love, Hope that was Built by God's Grace" (1 Thessalonians)    If you want it, let me know your email address.   Then I will send it to you. In Him, James ---------------- Table of Contents   Introduction                                                                                                                                                         When I remember and pray  (1:1-3)                 ...

Conclusion (1 Thessalonians)           The grace of God is with the Lord-centered community church that the Lord is building (1 Thess. 1:1; 5:28). When Apostle Paul started writing the letter to the Thessalonian church saints, he said “Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you” (1:1). Also at the end of the letter, he wrote to them “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you” (5:28). Paul, who began the letter with grace and ended the letter with grace, prayed that the God’s grace always be with the Thessalonian church saints because the Thessalonian church was found by the grace of God. Here, the Thessalonian church was found by the grace of God means that the Thessalonians, who were serving idols (1:9) were chosen by God in love (v. 4) and the gospel came to them with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction (v. 5) so that they turned to God from idols to se...

  Introduction                What is a community?  How should the body of the Lord be established as the Lord's community?  How should the Lord's church and the Lord-centered community be?   I personally became interested in community by studying Paul theology at Westminster Theological Seminary.  So, as I was studying theology, I was studying intermittently by buying books and reading books about church and community.  I did so because I wanted to learn.  I really wanted to know what the Bible says about the true church and community.  The reason I wanted to know and learn about the church was because I was kept on hearing the negative news about the church.  As I kept hearing the negative news about the church, I had been in a lot of trouble and asked myself these kinds of questions: ‘Certainly what the Bible says about the church or community is not like this,...